A converted SS-18 ICBM launched from a Baikonur silo carried five small satellites - MegSat 1, UniSat 1, SaudiSat 1a, SaudiSat 1b, and TiungSat-1 - into low Earth orbit for customers across Italy, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 188 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 22 Dnepr 1 flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 2000, 10:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Dnepr 1
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 109/95, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-057
- Launches in 2000
- 59th of 85
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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